topic Re: Stacking walls on one story in Modeling

Stacking walls on one story

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:13:15 GMT

Does anyone have any advice on stacking walls for instance a concrete that goes up to lets say 4' with a wood framed wall above.

Should I make an intermediate story in between?

Thanks

Mo

Re: Stacking walls on one story

Gerald Hoffman — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 00:11:29 GMT

Mo,

I find it is usually easier to put walls on different storeys in this situation unless you want to see both walls at the same time in 2D. This is because when you have 2 walls in the same plane you can get some nasty cleanup issues unless you apply little work-arounds like reversing reference edges.
If you were to put another storey below for eg. you can set it to zero height to next so both have the same base height. This makes it easy to set heights for the walls on both storeys.

I'm sure you will find many opinions on this. I don't always do it the same way myself.

Cheers,

Re: Stacking walls on one story

Barry Kelly — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 02:03:49 GMT

Or leave them all in the same storey but put them in different layers.

This way you can turn the layers on or off at will and the viewsets come in handy for doing this automatically if set up properly.

You can also control trimming problems with the layer intersection priority number.

Barry.

Re: Stacking walls on one story

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:43:37 GMT

I also use a different layer strategy. I have a 3d only layer that holds elements that only show in my 3d views (sections, elevations, perspective model views). I dump a lot of stuff on this layer that does not need to show in my plan view.

Re: Stacking walls on one story

TomWaltz — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:12:38 GMT

Mo wrote:
Does anyone have any advice on stacking walls for instance a concrete that goes up to lets say 4' with a wood framed wall above.

Should I make an intermediate story in between?

Thanks

Mo

It should be pretty easy to put them on the same story together as long as you (A) place them on separate layers and (B) make sure those layers have different intersection priorities.

Re: Stacking walls on one story

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 18:52:51 GMT

Of course, just my 2 cents.....

Mo,

I Like walls on different Stories. Especially in your case. The Concrete Wall is "usually" on the Foundation Layer, but often for me it can be on a "Pony" level or "first" Story level in the case of a steeply sloped building site.

I like this method because then I can display the Foundation (Foundation Story) along with my Site Mesh (Datum story below Foundation story) in a 3D view with only these stories (Ctrl+Alt+A) and I see the Foundation. See Attached.

Re: Stacking walls on one story

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 19:03:26 GMT

Another 2 cents....

Add the Pony Level

Re: Stacking walls on one story

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 19:04:29 GMT

And so on....

As some say here, Model it like "they" build it.